surabhi pandey — Director of Engineering

Hi There! I’m glad my tech posts caught your eye. I enjoy sharing insights on Platform Engineering fundamentals, the stuff that keeps you sane while technology shifts, and I specialise in breaking down complex IT jargon into simple, actionable lessons. My expertise covers DevOps, Cloud, and FinOps: basically, anything that saves a business time and money. If you prefer the technical details, here is the "un-simplified" version of my 9-year journey: I have 9 years of experience automating, securing, and optimizing cloud infrastructure for large-scale environments like JPMC, Telstra, and Jio. I treat infrastructure as a product, ensuring that as systems scale, they remain cost-effective, secure, and resilient. Key Impact & Deliverables: • 70% Cloud Cost Savings: Delivered massive reductions through targeted FinOps strategies across multi-cloud environments. • 10 Million User Scale: Designed and deployed distributed architectures using HiveMQ + Kafka to support high-concurrency traffic for 10M+ users. • PySpark Performance: Optimized Big Data ETL jobs, cutting execution time to 1/3rd and significantly lowering compute spend. • Kubernetes & Zero Trust (NIST): Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). I build secure, self-healing clusters using GitOps, RBAC, and automated security gates. • Zero Downtime Operations: 24/7 upkeep of mission-critical systems using Blue-Green and Canary deployment strategies with fully automated CI/CD pipelines. • Transformed and architected Legacy infrastructure into cloud and k8 •Lead teams and educated budding DevOps engineers Core Tech Stack: • Cloud & Containers: Azure, AWS, Kubernetes (AKS), Docker, ArgoCD. • IaC & Automation: Terraform, Ansible, Python, Shell. • Data & Messaging: PySpark, Kafka, HiveMQ, Java, React. • Security & Monitoring: Veracode, AquaSec, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Azure Monitor. I have a strong instinct for automation and a commitment to engineering best practices. Whether I'm designing a Disaster Recovery strategy or integrating security compliance into a pipeline, my goal is always to build resilient, long-term infrastructure.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with strong DevOps and FinOps expertise.

Experience: 8 yrs 9 mos

Skills

Devops
Site Reliability Engineering
Continuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (ci/cd)
Big Data Engineering
Infrastructure Management

Career Highlights

Achieved 70% cloud cost savings through FinOps strategies.
Designed scalable architectures for 10 million users.
Certified Kubernetes Administrator with expertise in DevSecOps.

Work Experience

Telstra

Platform Architect (5 mos)

Senior Devops Engineer (4 yrs)

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Site Reliability Engineer (6 mos)

Jio Platforms Limited (JPL)

Deputy Manager (2 yrs 2 mos)

Wipro Technologies

Associate Consultant (1 yr 8 mos)

Intern (5 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Jaypee Institute Of Information Technology

at Sumitra Modern School

at Sacred Heart Inter College, Sitapur

surabhi pandey

Director of Engineering

India8 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Achieved 70% cloud cost savings through FinOps strategies.
Designed scalable architectures for 10 million users.
Certified Kubernetes Administrator with expertise in DevSecOps.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with strong DevOps and FinOps expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsSite Reliability EngineeringContinuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (ci/cd)Big Data EngineeringInfrastructure Management

Other Skills

KubernetesInternet of Things (IoT)Data StructuresPython (Programming Language)AnsiblePythonDockerJenkinsApache SparkShell ScriptingAlgorithmsMicrosoft AzureBackup & Recovery SystemsInfluxDBKusto Query Language (KQL)

About

Experience

8 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Telstra

2 roles

Platform Architect

Promoted

Dec 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Remote

Architecting the next‑generation Telecom Capacity Planning Platform by transforming legacy workflows into a modern, cloud‑native ecosystem built on DevSecOps and FinOps principles.

Senior Devops Engineer

Dec 2021 – Dec 2025 · 4 yrs · Remote

KubernetesInternet of Things (IoT)DevOps

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Site Reliability Engineer

May 2021 – Nov 2021 · 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Data StructuresPython (Programming Language)Site Reliability Engineering

Jio platforms limited (jpl)

Deputy Manager

Mar 2019 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra

My day to day responsibilities include:
1. Designing and developing end to end one click/condition triggered CI/CD pipelines for Python, Go, Java, React, Angular and Android code tech stack for multiple environment.
2. Designed dynamic and scalable structure for big data platform (apache spark) via docker.
3. Well versed with pipeline tools- Docker, Ansible, jenkins, Sonarqube, python, ELK.
4. To keep pipelines updated and running 24*7
5. Automated all Test Pipelines and scripts for deployment of well tested and Stable releases.
6. Developed automated Healthchecks to maintain system uptime.
7. Proficient in debugging and troubleshooting as I keep myself informed of end to end Project Flow.
8. Developed python microservices for project specific use case.
9. Hands-on with CI/CD build tools like, gradle, maven, npm and Devops tools like Azure devops, Jenkins, Ansible, Grafana, Prometheus, SonarQube, Pcloudy, Selenium.
10. To identify and automate trivial tasks via python/shell
11. Involved in regular pocs to update and improve existing technologies used in project.
12. SPOC for interaction between developers, DB and other involved teams
13. DB designing for both SQL and Nosql DB as per application use case.
14. RELEASE MANAGER: responsible for major backend releases with rollback and their documentation.
15. Designing Disaster Recovery strategies
16. System Monitoring and Alerting best practices
17. Extremely familiar with Agile Methodology
Miscellaneous work and Soft skills:
1. Managed DEVOPS Team: mentoring and guiding new joiners, enabling them to contribute in deliverables ASAP.
2. Maintaining a positive work atmosphere and work with minimum or no supervision. I take full ownership of the deliverables.
2. Regular Volunteer to organize team bonding activities
3. I Keep a well documented work
4. Involved in technical hiring process.

AnsiblePython (Programming Language)DevOps

Wipro technologies

2 roles

Associate Consultant

Aug 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida Area, India

Setup and troubleshooting of entire environment (Prod/Pre-prod/ Dev) readiness of all layers in three tier architecture.
Managed 120+VM (linux based/on-premises).
Enabled seperate environment (Prod/Pre-prod/ Dev) with continuous integration via Jenkins for automation of build and Ansible for deployment.
Management and set up of Git repositiories.
Wrote shell scripts to automate trivial tasks.
Did Setup of MYSQL and PGsql server with appropriate High availability and failover strategies.
Performed setup of Performance Monitoring Tool Dynatrace and Middleware/OS monitoring Tool JON.
HandsOn experience with middleware JBOSS and OS fine tuning.
Setup of HA proxy at different VMs as per strategy requirement of individual application.
Regular spokes person with client, and a key member in final handover of applications. Being a part of Infra team, performed modification of deployment architecture after analysis (pitched solutions to handle failover scenarios and load balancing) and did configurations accordingly
Designed and developed restful APIs using Spring Boot and Gradle for chat Bot and web UI.
DML designing after understanding the Business requirements and setup of MariaDB with replication.
Maintained API documentation via Swagger.